[sldev] [META][AWG]log chat of AWG meeting Friday, Oct 5, 2007

[dirk husemann]

Tao Takashi wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>
> 2007/10/6, Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com
> <mailto:secret.argent at gmail.com>>:
>
>
>
>     Where do permissions live? They're a common property of all assets in
>     the SL domain. They're not part of the asset, because different
>     "copies" of the asset have different permissions. Or does the asset
>     need to get split into a static part (eg, the actual texture) and a
>     dynamic one (SL permissions)?
>
>
>
> So why aren't they just copies? I think if you take caching too far it
> gets very complicated. E.g. you probably cannot make sure anyway that
> every
> cached instance of a copy gets invalidated or changed once you change the
> original object. I was thinking more about really copying the object
> to the region
> domain once it gets rezzed. It might then have another URL on the
> region domain
> (part of the URL might be some sort of UUID or internal ID).
was just about to suggest the same: if different "copies" of the asset
have different permissions/properties then they are really different
copies in the true sense of the word.

>
> So if I give a notecard to somebody I wouldn't expect it to change if
> I change
> my original version. I would still do these things via a script or in
> some "intelligent"
> object.
>
> What I thought was something like the scope a creator can define once
> they give or
> rez the object. This might define in which circles it can be used.
> Like scope can be
> "only that region", "all regions on this domain", "only trusted
> domains of level X" etc.
> Problem is of course once it hits the region domain in Joe's garage
> nothing should
> be trusted anymore. With having a scope we can nevertheless still
> allow these regions
> to connect, you just cannot rez every object on them because the agent
> domain
> might forbid it (surely one would need to think about all the possible
> cases).
that ties back to the "allow export to region domains X, Y, Z"?

-- 
dr dirk husemann, pervasive computing, ibm zurich research lab
--- hud at zurich.ibm.com --- +41 44 724 8573 --- SL: dr scofield

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